The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19


ed n bill to prohibit the entlcing OF labor
ers under contract from their employers ana
to prescribe penalty therefor.
The senate amendments TO he bill to re-
store civil and criminal Jurisdiction TO the
county courts of Live Oak, Throckmorion,
Karnes and otner counties were concurred
in.
The house refused to concur in the senate
substitute for the house reiormatory bill.
Also non.copclirrcd in senate amendments
TO the bill eXempting from forced sale 800
pounds lint or 1900 of seed cotton for every
family.
The senate had substituted the necessary
wood-pile for exemption.
Concurrence was had in scnGlc amend
ments to the following bills;
Furnishing sale OF whisky at elections.
Requiring county officers TO make regular
reports to commissioners courts.
TO authorize cities and towns to levy and
collect taxes for construction or purchased
public buildings. wa!erworks, sewers, street
improvements, etc
senate amendments to high license BIZ,
uon-conculTed in.
Senate bill to require railroad conf anies
TO leave crossings or openings in the fences
of their right of way passed.
House bill TO require instruction In by
| gicne and physiology in the pablo schools
passed.
House bill to amend law relating TO sales
of land for taxes passed.
Grcsham's railroad bill as amended by the
classification and schedule proposed by
Bell of Cooke, came up on third reading
| and passed.
Bill to validate acts of land board lost by
| 4 vote OF 30 to III.
The land bill came up.
Browning offered an amendment TO sec
ton s. providing that any purchaser and
actual settler upon any of the common
school, university and asylum lands, under
an, iaw, who ior any cause has failed to pay
the principal and interest, or citler, due to
the State upon such lands on the LIST day Of
| August. 1886, and by reason of such failure
or default such purchasers land has ormay
be 10 -leited to the State, such purchaser
shall have the prior right for six months
| from the date the act takes elect TO ptlr-
chase his land ut such prices ns the unpaid
principal at the the time OF default and the
interest due thereon under former purchase
ND to the time he purchases under this act
shall aggregate, and such purchases shall in
all other resnects be governed. by the same
penalties. restrictions and requirements
enioined by the net upon other purchasers
and actual settlers.
The only opposition to this amendment
was upon constitutional grounds, but
Browning and others argued that there was
nothing in the amendment contrary to the
provisions of the constitution.
Speaker Pendleton also for the first time
during the session took the floor and ably
supported the amendment. 1t was adopted
ayes Il nays 10.
IIudgins offered an amendment TO strike
out the clause to authorize the sale Of pun G.
" pasture lands without permanent water
in quantities not exceeding four sections
to any one settler. Lost-ayes 81, nays "a.
McGaughey offered an amendment to Sec
ton five III bill to classification of lands as
provided, for any person desiring in good
faith to purchase any of the lands not class
flied for the purpose Of actual settlement
may purchase not TO exceed one section at
the minimum prices fixed by the act by
complying with the provisions of the act
which apply TO actual settlers on agricnlt.
ura lands.
Pending consideration OF this amendment
the house took recess until o'clock when
McGaughey's amendment TO the land bill
was adopted.
An amendment by Strong was adopted
requiring that when four sections are sold
to the same settler they shall be contigu
Gus or as nearly so as possible.
Browning offered an anne ndment that
lands he classified ms agricultural. which
may be leased under the act, shall be leased
subject TO sale of as by the act, and when
ever such leased lands may be purchased
the Jesse shall give immediate possession,
provided that the lessee shall have pro rata
credit upon his next years rent or the
money refunded to him by the treasurer. as
he may elect
NJ Faubion offered the following amend.
ment TO the amendment:
provided, that no actual settler who
shall purchase land within any leasehold
shall be permitted to turn loose M re than
one head of cattle or horses Tor every ten
acres of land purchased by him and unin-
closed. or in lieu thereof four head Of sheep
or goats to every ten acres so purchased
and uninclosed each violation OF the pro-
visions of this act which restrict the num-
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